Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:08:53 +0000
The US solar industry is getting a shot of adrenaline from South Carolina, which is adding another new solar factory to its roster along with 500 new jobs.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:57:31 +0000
Large solar projects are typically financed by big banks. At the other end of the scale, residential solar is financed by a homeowner and potentially just through their solar company or an affiliated lender. But what about the middle of that wide spectrum? It’s the smallish to mid-size-ish projects that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:41:52 +0000
The US developer Hecate has 11 gigawatts of solar energy and storage projects under its belt and 47 more gigawatts in its pipeline.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:46:14 +0000
McDonald’s and Wendy’s franchises in Illinois are pushing the community solar envelope, Trump or no Trump.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:15:33 +0000
Renewable Properties, a developer and investor in small-scale utility, community solar, energy storage, and electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure projects, added 50 MW of completed projects to its portfolio in 2024, […]
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Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:34:34 +0000
In a resounding victory for community solar advocates, the New Mexico Supreme Court definitively rejected electric utilities’ efforts to reshape the state’s community solar program. The court released a comprehensive 58-page opinion yesterday, which affirmed its March 2024 verbal decision upholding the implementation rules from the Public Regulation Commission. New … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:59:04 +0000
We write about solar microgrids all the time, but we seldom feature specific projects and how they are helping real, live humans. The video below does a great job of highlighting a small project in New Orleans, Louisiana. “What do solar panels and battery-powered microgrids have to do with protecting … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:15:20 +0000
Space-saving bifiacial PV technology is a new addition to the dual-use agrivoltaic movement, which enables farmers to continue working their land while realizing income from solar projects.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:00:22 +0000
Repurposing airfields, building on landfills, and blending with cranberry bogs, Syncarpha Capital wants to change the energy scene. Syncarpha Capital’s aim is to transform the energy landscape by reducing or completely removing obstacles to the mass use of solar energy and energy storage in the United States. Recently, a couple … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:30:56 +0000
Plans are underway to install wooden-framed parking canopies in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (Gard) as part of a future communal self-consumption initiative. BoucL Énergie was chosen to construct photovoltaic canopies on the municipal car park on Chemin de la Carrierasse. The municipality’s self-consumption project aims to reduce CO₂ emissions by producing and sharing solar … [continued]
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